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SOURCE: The New Republic
1/31/2023
How the Right Got Waco Wrong
by Paul Renfro
Historian Paul Renfro reviews Kevin Cook's new book, which seeks to explain how the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian cult's Waco compound became a totem for the right while also decrying the aggressive law enforcement tactics that escalated the situation toward mass death.
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SOURCE: HuffPost
1/29/2023
Inside the Neonazi Homeschool Community
"A concerted, decades-long campaign by right-wing Christian groups to deregulate home schooling has afforded parents wide latitude in how they teach their kids — even if that means indoctrinating them with explicit fascism."
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SOURCE: TomDispatch
1/29/2023
The Real Failures of January 6
by Karen J. Greenberg
Despite surface similarities, the attack on Brazil's government buildings earlier this month differed from January 6, 2021 in one key respect: the transfer of presidential power had already been accomplished. The contrast is sobering—for America.
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SOURCE: The Baffler
1/24/2023
Bolsonaro's Long Shadow
by Nara Roberta Silva
The recently departed president is only the latest, and probably not the last, avatar of antidemocratic impulses in Brazilian politics, generally reflected by the elite recruiting the anxieties of the middle class to thwart broader social rights for the nation's poor.
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SOURCE: New York Review of Books
1/25/2023
Victimhood and Vengeance: The Reactionary Roots of Christian Nationalism
by Linda Greenhouse
Three books offer illuminating and distressing insight on the eruption of Christian nationalism, a "deep story" in American cultural history that, when its adherents feel denied the power they expect, guides potentially violent vengeance.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
1/18/2023
The Common Evangelical Roots of Insurrection in America and Brazil
by Raimundo Barreto and João B. Chaves
A century of international evangelical network-building and theological development have brought militant Christian nationalism to the forefront of right-wing politics in both nations.
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SOURCE: Jacobin
1/11/2023
Deport Bolsonaro
by Ben Burgis
The former Brazilian president has no right or entitlement to live in Florida while avoiding accountability for crimes in Brazil committed both before and after his losing campaign for reelection.
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SOURCE: Council on Foreign Relations
1/10/2023
Brazil Attack Latest Export of Far-Right Extremism from the US
by Jacob Ware
With direct support from figures like Steve Bannon and the use of social media to organize a mass attack on the institutions of government, the January 8 attack on the Brazilian government has been molded by the American far right.
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SOURCE: New York Times
1/5/2023
Why the Fringe is in Charge of the GOP
by Richard H. Pildes
The ability of a couple dozen hardliners to derail the Speaker election reflects deep transformations in the power of congressional leaders to wield power through commitee assignments and campaign funds. Will this make governing impossible?
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SOURCE: Just Security
1/3/2023
Jan. 6 Report Gives Good, but Not Complete, Picture of Right-Wing Extremists
by Jon Lewis
A domestic extremism researcher argues that the committee's report lets law enforcement and intelligence agencies off the hook for their evaluation of the theat of right-wing violence at the Capitol and makes a future incident more likely.
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/19/2022
Task of January 6 Committee? Don't Let the Plot Get Memory-Holed
The compulsion to fit the past into a narrative about collective identity means that events like January 6 and the ugly truths about the scope and goals of the far right are likely to be consigned to the archives in a misguided attempt to "move on."
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/12/2022
Review: When Freedom Meant the Freedom to Oppress
by Jeff Shesol
Jefferson Cowie's new book traces the current resurgence of racist and antigovernment radicalism through the history of George Wallace's Alabama home county.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
12/15/2022
Richard Evans on the Ideology of the German Coup Attempt
The historian of Nazism discusses the surprising arrest of German Reichsburger adherents for plotting a coup against the German parliament.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
12/13/2022
Take Calls for a "Fourth Reich" Seriously
by Gavriel Rosenfeld
The concept of a new German Reich emerged almost immediately after the fall of Hitler, and reflected the incomplete effort to remove the far-right from German politics as well as the growth of an international authoritarian movement.
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
12/9/2022
The Disturbing Truth: What's Behind the German Coup
by Annika Brockschmidt
Like January 6, the German coup reflects the radicalization of a significant portion of the affluent "bourgeois center" of the society, making a reckoning with the sources of far-right allegiance particularly urgent.
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SOURCE: Foreign Policy
12/12/2022
What the German Coup Plotters Took from the American Right
by Lucian Staiano-Daniels
The German Reichsburger movement has been influenced both by the legalistic theories of the American "sovereign citizen" movement and the lurid conspiratorial fantasies of QAnon.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
12/14/2022
What's the Path from Crunchy Counterculture to Alt-Right?
by Kathleen Belew
Observers have tracked a growing affinity between online adherents of natural lifestyle and alternative medicine communities and the antigovernment and white supremacist movements. Thinking about the connections disrupts our idea of a linear spectrum of political affinity from "left" to "right."
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SOURCE: The New Republic
11/25/2022
Are Elite Conservatives Getting Too Weird to Win?
by Graham Gallagher
The right's move toward European nationalism, conservative Catholicism, and other departures from domestic conservative tradition are troubling to scholars of reactionary politics. But they might just seem weird to voters.
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SOURCE: Talking Points Memo
11/30/2022
From Rugged Individualists to Aggrieved Victims: The Rhetorical Trajectory of the Right
by Paul Elliott Johnson
Forms of grievance and victimhood have always been central to far-right politics. Only recently have mainstream conservative politicians felt free to embrace them without coming off as whiners.
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
11/28/2022
Forget Apology, the Right is Doubling Down on Inciting Violence Against LGBTQ Americans
by Thomas Lecaque
The campaign of encouraging stochastic terror against LGBTQ communities won't be deterred by a tragedy like the Colorado Springs killings.
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